It's not that risky mate when the player wants to come to you and Roma had to compromise to break even. You go in from the get go and pay the £40 million or so they wanted you've cost yourself £5 million that can be added elsewhere.
They've had the strong hand right through this with Salah wanting to play here and Roma having to sell. Just a matter of being patient and finding the middle ground. That's come in Roma having to concede they weren't getting what they wanted outside of structuring the add-ons and L'pool only giving up now what they wanted.
Everyone's happy. In the main, major transfers take time. City over paying to get players in early this summer has skewed a lot of thinking on that.